RE: OT: Drive question.

2013-05-01 Thread John Sessoms
From: P.J. Alling I've tried to get an answer about this on a number of fora but so far nothing helpful has come my way. I finally upgraded my desktop to WinXP. I was getting tired of having to Hack Win2K to get new software and hardware to work properly so when I had my last primary hard

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-05-01 Thread John Sessoms
From: steve harley on 2013-04-29 17:45 Bruce Walker wrote I'm actually okay with the chiclet Mac keyboard I have and I'm pretty sensitive to keyboard feel. I think it's one you can actually get used to. i like those too, but i suspect the non-Apple chiclet keyboards will vary in quality; the

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-05-01 Thread steve harley
on 2013-05-01 11:44 John Sessoms wrote A better solution if you DO have to share drives with a Mac is to have the drive formatted for the Mac file system use a program like MacDrive if/when you need to access it from Windoze. NTFS is read-only by default on OS X, but works fine at that if

OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread P.J. Alling
I've tried to get an answer about this on a number of fora but so far nothing helpful has come my way. I finally upgraded my desktop to WinXP. I was getting tired of having to Hack Win2K to get new software and hardware to work properly so when I had my last primary hard drive failure I

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Aahz Maruch
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013, P.J. Alling wrote: I've tried to get an answer about this on a number of fora but so far nothing helpful has come my way. I finally upgraded my desktop to WinXP. I was getting tired of having to Hack Win2K to get new software and hardware to work properly so when I had

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread P.J. Alling
I had to slipstream an XP installation to get the proper drivers for the hardware which kept XP from installing, (I didn't have any problem with W2K but that's another story). When I built the slipstream installation I included SP3. The failure is interesting. A subset of directories,

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Aahz Maruch
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013, P.J. Alling wrote: I had to slipstream an XP installation to get the proper drivers for the hardware which kept XP from installing, (I didn't have any problem with W2K but that's another story). Driver installation problems makes me suspicious about driver stability

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread P.J. Alling
I've thought about it, but I'm using a single core Athalon based system with a 1gig of ram, (the BIOS supports 3+ gigs but I found out the hard way that the MB only supports 1). I'd have to upgrade nearly everything to use Win7). This box flies running Win2K and isn't too sluggish running XP

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Bill
On 29/04/2013 2:25 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: I've thought about it, but I'm using a single core Athalon based system with a 1gig of ram, (the BIOS supports 3+ gigs but I found out the hard way that the MB only supports 1). I'd have to upgrade nearly everything to use Win7). This box flies

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Rob Studdert
My stab in the dark would be that you have some kind or file corruption that hangs the search or alternately some odd character or naming convention in a set of file names? As a tet you could try a third party search tool and an external drive repair/analysis tool (I assume that you've thoroughly

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Doug Franklin
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Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread P.J. Alling
On 4/29/2013 4:35 PM, Bill wrote: On 29/04/2013 2:25 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: I've thought about it, but I'm using a single core Athalon based system with a 1gig of ram, (the BIOS supports 3+ gigs but I found out the hard way that the MB only supports 1). I'd have to upgrade nearly everything

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread P.J. Alling
Yes pretty much. I've run the diagnostics multiple times both the drive manufactures and the built in windows tests. The drives continue to check out fine. On 4/29/2013 5:39 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: My stab in the dark would be that you have some kind or file corruption that hangs the search

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread P.J. Alling
On 4/29/2013 6:28 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: Try safe boot and chkdsk? I haven't tried a safe boot then check disk on all the drives yet. I guess I'll have to block out some time to watch the computer grind away. I also just upgraded my keyboard, and I really hate the new one, but finding a

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Rob Studdert
On 30 April 2013 09:33, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I also just upgraded my keyboard, and I really hate the new one, but finding a decent keyboard is becoming difficult. Pretty much every one I've seen recently has had Chiclet keys like the MAC, (thanks for nothing Apple),

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Bruce Walker
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:33 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I also just upgraded my keyboard, and I really hate the new one, but finding a decent keyboard is becoming difficult. Pretty much every one I've seen recently has had Chiclet keys like the MAC, (thanks for nothing

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread P.J. Alling
On 4/29/2013 7:45 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:33 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I also just upgraded my keyboard, and I really hate the new one, but finding a decent keyboard is becoming difficult. Pretty much every one I've seen recently has had

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Bruce Walker
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:24 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/29/2013 7:45 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:33 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I also just upgraded my keyboard, and I really hate the new one, but finding a decent

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread steve harley
on 2013-04-29 17:45 Bruce Walker wrote I'm actually okay with the chiclet Mac keyboard I have and I'm pretty sensitive to keyboard feel. I think it's one you can actually get used to. i like those too, but i suspect the non-Apple chiclet keyboards will vary in quality; the Apple ones are very

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2013-04-29 20:24, P.J. Alling wrote: I don't know if you can count the PC Jr as any kind of influence since the few who ever bought one denied ever owning one, and it was more expensive than a number of full featured PC clones available at the time so who'd even want one. We sold the piss

Re: OT: Drive question.

2013-04-29 Thread Aahz Maruch
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013, P.J. Alling wrote: I also just upgraded my keyboard, and I really hate the new one, but finding a decent keyboard is becoming difficult. Pretty much every one I've seen recently has had Chiclet keys like the MAC, (thanks for nothing Apple), My typing is suffering, and